A prospective client recently asked me if there is a common thread in our coaching practice working with leaders. My simple response – ‘Communication. People want to connect at a deeper level to get through to another person or member of a team, and they come to...

“Trust” typically ranks at the top among key attributes of highly performing teams. To help assess the level of trust within the team, I run an exercise that I call ‘trust continuum’ – I invite each team member to take turns standing in a place along a straight...

You may react to this title as though it is an oxymoron. How can that be true? Vulnerable and Powerful? Not possible, at least if you operate from a traditional set of management operating beliefs. But, there is a limit of how far my power will take me when I lead...

Chaos within a management team is inevitable. We define chaos as anything that takes the team out of its comfort zone. Usually when a team or individual senses that there is “chaos ahead”, they try to avoid or minimize the issue. This is completely natural!! Who WANTS...

Chaos is difficult and scary – and easy to avoid. That’s why many of us choose not to confront someone with our truth. Even when I know that my truth is just my set of beliefs, opinions and perspective, it can come off as a biting, confrontational attack that...

Vulnerability has a sacred place inside the workplace. Building trust – an essential ingredient of effective teams – starts with vulnerability. And it begins with the leader taking the risk of showing his/ her humanity. As a coach, I’ve witnessed...